Brocade has announced the completion of its acquisition of Foundry Networks. Foundry adds their BigIron switches and ServerIron load balancers to Brocade's existing SAN equipment. This has been a bit…
End-of-Life: Juniper WX devices and WXC250
Juniper has announced the end-of-life for the WX platform and the WXC-250 devices. The end of availablity is 5 May 2009, with the end of support at 31 May 2014.…
New Juniper WXC appliances
On Monday Juniper launched some new bits of kit in the WXC line, the WXC-1800, WXC-2600, and WXC-3400 devices. The new appliances are partial replacements and extensions over the existing…
Purple and Blue? Completed Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information
So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed (as covered in my initial post Purple and Blue - Packeteer and BlueCoat), and Packeteer is now "A BlueCoat Company". Quick take-aways…
The advantage of simple APIs
There is power in a simple API, giving you the ability to deploy new features and functions quickly. The advantage of simple APIs is that they can be quickly and…
Asimo has a love of music, conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Honda's Asimo robot has developed a love of music. Since April, it has worked with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the orchestra and Yo-Yo Ma, the renowned cellist performing…
Purple and Blue? Packeteer and BlueCoat
So there's loads of stuff on the net about the upcoming merger between BlueCoat and Packeteer. I'm going to add my own 2p to the thoughts, as I think that…
State of the Network – a response
So Network Instruments have published their latest State of the Network report, and it makes for some worrying reading for network managers. The report is gathered from questionnaires answered by…